On Friday night, the lights in Fang Di's room were on all night.
Fang Di hung professional monitoring headphones around her neck. She smoked cigarettes and drank beer from a bottle. The professional tape recorder spun and stopped. She listened to a section, pressed pause, and skillfully operated the keyboard to type words.
The content is that the other party transmitted the interview recording from Beijing to New York through telephone transmission. Fang Di then used a microphone to the phone receiver to collect the recording, so the sound quality was very poor. Some speech clips needed to be listened to repeatedly with headphones and the volume increased.
The meaning can only be understood by judging the previous and later content. The investigation data about Ye Zong from China consisted of fax documents and interview recordings. She needed to summarize and summarize the two parts to form a concise investigation report.
Fang Di was born into a military family. His grandfather was a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China, and his father was a major general. His older brother joined the company after graduating from the military academy and followed the path of joining the military. Fang Di grew up in the No. 8 Family House of the Beijing Military Region, referred to as "The Eighth Army"
"Yuan", because there is a culture of "competition" in the compound, comparing whose children are capable, beautiful, and talented... Therefore, the children in the compound are particularly able to endure hardships, and the Eighth Army Courtyard also has the "Devil's Courtyard"
Another name for it means a place where children suffer. The children who came out of the Eighth Military Compound are all proud of it and often say: Who am I? I came out of the Devil's Compound!
Fang Di studied at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of St. Niel in New York at the age of 19. After completing her master's degree in journalism, she applied to the Business School of the University of St. Niel to study for a master's degree in business administration. She is about to graduate in one year. She left Beijing alone at the age of 19.
I have lived in New York for 6 years and have gradually adapted to this multicultural international metropolis.
This is a student apartment near the Saint-Nière University Business School. It is divided into 4 types of apartments, which can be rented alone or shared by several people. Fangdi is a small apartment rented by one person. The bathroom and kitchen are very small. In addition,
There is only one room of about 15 square meters, which combines the living room, bedroom and study room. In addition to the single bed and wardrobe, the most conspicuous thing in the room is a painting table placed against the wall, which is more than 1 meter wide and 1 meter wide.
Duo Shen has a bunch of news gathering and editing equipment on it, including professional video recorders, professional cameras, reel-to-reel tape recorders, wired microphones, inkjet printers, computers, monitors, and speakers. It is like a news gathering and editing studio. In addition to these, there are also desktop
Makeup mirror, cosmetics, tableware and other daily necessities. Although this is not a table in the strict sense, it is a dressing table, writing table, computer table, audio-visual editor, dining table, painting table, single bed and wardrobe.
It was very crowded and squeezed out of an open space of less than 5 square meters outside the door, which looked very uncoordinated visually. Fang Di likes to dance, and this open space is her exclusive territory for practicing dance in her free time.
The tape recorder starts up intermittently.
The voice of the village branch secretary of Yanxiu in northern Shaanxi: Zinong had just gone to the countryside. He was still a baby at the time. I asked him what he could do and he said he could fight. Then I said you should go see the mountains and forests...
The voice of a female villager in Yanxiu, northern Shaanxi: Zinong is so dirty, she has sores on her neck, and her hands are rotten from the cold. That's all. If she doesn't delay her studies, then "Das Kapital" or something like that is as thick as a brick...
The voice of the director of the neighborhood committee in front of the family home of the Army Operations Department: Oh, it was the rebellion that was suppressed in 1978. The peasants didn’t ask for the house or the compensation. The child was stubborn and said that it was his parents’ life money and couldn’t spend it. He said they
They are all members of the Party, and their beliefs must be respected. All their belongings should be paid as Party dues...
The voice of a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: We have had several exchanges and have unique insights. I think he is an expert in Marxist theory. It is inevitable for him to go to Berlin. East Berlin is an important specimen for studying changes in the communist movement. I believe that Zinong
We have foreseen that the Berlin Wall is about to fall. As a scholar, of course we hope to witness the scene and witness history...
While Fang Di was working, she looked at herself through the closet mirror from time to time. This angle was not a coincidence, it was the angle she had designed from the beginning when she arranged the dormitory. This may be a woman's nature, and there is probably no woman who doesn't like to admire herself. She looked at it
Looking at the woman in the mirror, the woman in the mirror is constantly changing in her mind, like a perfect woman with all kinds of charms.
The investigation report has finally been compiled.
An investigation into Ye Zi Nong revealed that Ye Hui, Ye Zi Nong’s father, was born in 1918. He joined the Red Army in 195, graduated from the Party in 197, and graduated from Yan’an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. He experienced the Long March, the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served successively as a platoon leader and deputy company commander.
Commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, division political commissar, staff officer of the Army Operation Department, rank of major general. In 1967, he was isolated and examined by the rebels. In 1968, he was sent to the May 7th Cadre School for labor reform.
In 1977, he died of a gunshot wound to the lungs caused by fatigue and torture at the age of 5.
Ye Zi Nong’s mother Lin Jingru was born in 1988, the daughter of a big capitalist in Shanghai. She joined the army in 1947.
Party in 1949, was sent to study at Moscow University in 1955, met Ye Hui on the Korean battlefield in 195, served as a confidential Russian translator for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 195, was criticized by the rebels in 1967, and committed suicide by throwing himself into a river because he could not bear the humiliation.
9 years old, left a suicide note: I am loyal to the party, I am loyal to the cause of communism, please review me.
Zi Nong Zi Nong was born in 1954. He attended the Beijing Military Region Primary School in 1966 and Beijing Sequoia Middle School in 1966. In 1967, because his father was isolated and censored and his mother "cut herself off from the people", she was deeply discriminated against in school. She formed a gang to dominate one side and wandered around the
There were fights inside and outside the campus. Xia Lin died in 197. From this year on, he began to read a lot of Marxist books. He studied English and German assiduously in order to read the original works directly. In 1978, his parents were rehabilitated, and Ye Zi Nong moved the house and house where the policy was implemented.
All the compensation money was paid as party dues on behalf of his parents. In the same year, China resumed the college entrance examination. Ye Zi took the entrance examination to Huangpu University of Political Science and Law, and dropped out after two years. In 1981, Ye Ye took the entrance examination to the Sixth Patriarch Buddhist College, but dropped out again two years later. In 1984, he followed the Red Army's Long March.
Route for revolutionary historical investigation.
In 1987, he opened an auto repair shop in the Qingdong Oilfield, Shaanxi, and was suspected of using the dual-track price system to resell scarce supplies. He has lived in Berlin since 1988, with the purpose of studying the changes in the communist movement using East and West Berlin as a specimen. According to a scholar, Ye Zinong was very concerned about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Have foresight and wait to witness that scene.
Based on the evaluations of the interviewees, first, he is lazy and unmotivated; second, he is an expert in Marxist theoretical research.
In September 1991, Fang Di sorted out the original text and pronunciation to form a concise narrative text, and then translated the Chinese manuscript into an English manuscript as required, and printed copies of both manuscripts. All the work was completed when the sky was dim and bright.
.She was so sleepy that she fell on the bed and fell asleep until she was woken up by the alarm clock. She opened her eyes and hesitated for a moment, then looked at the class schedule on the bedside, then turned over and fell asleep again.
After lunch, all the employees in Laojiu's store got off work. After lunch and before dinner, the employees had a rest period of less than an hour. Laojiu did not go home and was preparing red envelopes in the office. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
According to the store's tradition, red envelopes are given to employees every Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Laojiu's business is in a slump, so the amount of the red envelopes is symbolic.
At about 4 o'clock, the downstairs began to be bustling, and employees came to work again. When Lao Jiu heard the noise downstairs, he locked a stack of red envelopes in a drawer, took a few old and new newspapers and went downstairs. He went to the bar to ask for
He bought a pack of cigarettes and a disposable lighter with our store's advertisement printed on it, and went out on his own. He walked along the zebra crossing to the other side of the road, and walked east along the sidewalk for about a meter. There was a large supermarket there, and there was a large supermarket in front of it.
It was a rectangular platform with steps on three sides. He put newspapers on the steps on the west side of the platform and sat down facing west. From this position, he could clearly see his hotel.
Lao Jiu is not a smoker or drinker, at least not addicted to cigarettes. He only smokes one or two on some occasions. Today he wants to smoke, or he smokes for the sake of smoking. It seems that smoking has become a symbol of thinking or a release.
The way of trouble. Since he came back from Berlin, his troubles have become more and more serious. The tepid business of the hotel stings him more than ever. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the hotel has also hung up colorful ribbons and lanterns, but
The festive atmosphere did not make him feel better.
Grotia Street has cars and people coming and going. It is as bustling and noisy as a market all year round. Different footsteps and different expressions rush by on the sidewalk... Lao Jiu just stared quietly for a long time, one after another.
He smoked one cigarette after another until his mouth was numb with pain. He continued to smoke, as if he was deliberately abusing himself. At this moment, he felt like a speck of dust. No one cared about his existence and did not need to care, not even himself.
He didn't even know who he was... Actually, no, he forgot about his bitterness and just muttered one sentence in his heart: Is this what I, Lao Jiu, will be like in my life?
Suddenly, an acquaintance walking out of the mall spotted him and said, "Brother Jiu, what are you doing sitting here? You're looking at girls."
Lao Jiu smiled reciprocally and watched the man walk away.
After a while, another voice called him: "Brother Jiu, what are you doing sitting here?"
Lao Jiu heard the sound and moved his eyes: "Hey, it's Fang Di."
Fang Di said: "I went to the store to look for you. The bar said you were here and that you had been sitting there for several days."
Lao Jiu said embarrassedly: "No, I just sat there for a while yesterday. No classes in the afternoon?"
Fang Di said: "Yes, it's not very important. I skipped class. Brother Ninth, the results of the investigation are out." Fang Di said, taking out the document bag from his bag and handing it to Lao Jiu.
Lao Jiu was very happy. He took it and said: "Great, great." After saying that, he quickly took it out and read it. There were both English and Chinese. He nodded with satisfaction, took out a newspaper from under his body and said
: "You sit down for a while, I'll take a look first."
Fang Di was also sitting on the steps.
Lao Jiu read the Chinese manuscript and said: "Now I have the bottom line. I can tell you are not fooling around." Fang Di asked: "Ten thousand US dollars, don't you think the price is too high?"
Lao Jiu said: "I know how difficult this matter is. It can't be done without some background, and it can't be done so quickly. Compared with the Luo family's affairs, this little money is nothing. Maybe my 50,000 can also do it."
Take it back."
Fang Di took out another rectangular paper bag from his bag and handed it to Lao Jiu, saying, "Take this." Lao Jiu asked, "What?"
Fang Di said: "You take it first."
Lao Jiu took it and felt it as soon as he started using it, and said, "Money?"
Fang Di said: "I used it. In addition to long-distance phone bills, I also bought them some small gifts. They are not valuable, just to express gratitude. There are 8 left, please click on them."
Lao Jiu's face immediately darkened: "You shabby Brother Nine"
Fang Di said: "I say ten thousand, if it is something that can be done or not, you may give up because you think the price is too high."
Lao Jiu said: "That won't work! I didn't pay for this money alone, who are you going to save it for?"
Fang Di said: "Brother Ninth, don't worry, can you let me explain?"
Lao Jiu said: "You say."
Fang Di said: "It's not that I don't want to take it, it's that I don't dare to take it. In fact, I still can't decide the extent of this matter. I have saved the phone bills and shopping invoices, and the accounts are clear. This matter is nothing.
Once something happens, the nature of it is different whether it is for profit. I still know this level. What ability can a girl like me have? People who help me are not all for my father, even though I am not a state worker.
, but the use is still of public power. Taking your investigation fee is using the power of the state to make profits. Once something happens, the nature of profit-making will be serious. This is not harming me, but my father."
Lao Jiu didn't know what to say: "Then look...this..."
Fang Di said: "You think I am willing to work hard all day long? There is no way, I have to earn money, tuition fees, rent and a lot of expenses. Although it is difficult, there are no sequelae, and I can sleep well."
Lao Jiu said: "Actually, if you reveal your identity, many people will come to look after you."
Fang Di said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. This matter is like this. Brother Ninth, why are you sitting here?"
Lao Jiu said: "This business has been half-dead, I'm worried."
Fang Di smiled and said, "You can't sit here either."
Lao Jiu said with emotion: "I was thinking, everyone has stopped walking, and I don't know where the road is. What should I do if I am involved in the Luo family? Maybe I will be worried.
He's dead."
Fang Di said: "My thesis topic selection was rejected by my supervisor again, and I even received a blank look. I wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in, but there was no one, so I had to bear it shamelessly. Everyone has worries.
I got through it slowly."
Lao Jiu smiled and said, "Okay, let me borrow your good words and get through it slowly."
Fang Di stood up and said, "Then I won't chat with Brother Jiu. I will go to the club to meet with the director again during the performance tomorrow."
Lao Jiu also stood up and said, "I also have to go to the Chamber of Commerce to send the documents."
After seeing Fang Di off, Lao Jiu put away an investigation report and drove to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce is on the first floor of a building on North Karamai Street. There are several cars parked outside the door. Chairman Xu is standing next to a car talking to someone, and a young man is moving things into the car.
Lao Jiu parked the car and came over to say hello to Chairman Xu: "Lao Xu, what are you doing?"
Chairman Xu smiled and said: "Brother Jiu is here. Isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival? Let's give some mooncakes to a few old friends." Lao Jiu came closer and said: "The survey results of Ye Ye Nong are out. No, I just got them.
I brought it to you." Chairman Xu said, "Let's go and sit in the room."
Entering Chairman Xu's office, Lao Jiu took out the investigation report and $8.
Chairman Xu asked from another place: “Hasn’t the money been used up?”
Lao Jiu said: "They don't make any money, they only charge costs."
Chairman Xu read the investigation report and said, "Well, it's pretty much the same as what was rumored. OK, the path is quite hard." Lao Jiu said, "Hey, don't mention it. I really don't want to get involved in this matter, so I just ran into it."
I am such an ignorant person."
Chairman Xu said: "It will be great if it is done."
Lao Jiu said: "If Dai Mengyan still makes things difficult for Mr. Ye, I will provide the follow-up funds and I will believe him."
Chairman Xu said: "I discussed with Lao Qian and it was a bit too much not to freeze the 10,000 yuan in compensation. Dai Mengyan has the greatest interest here. When it comes to using the money to achieve something, I think she can pay it out faster than anyone else."
Lao Jiu said: "My friend said that someone is also investigating Ye Nong, using formal channels."
Chairman Xu said: "It may be Hongchuan, and people need to find out."
Lao Jiu asked: "How did that happen?"
Chairman Xu said: "I heard from Xuehong that it was not bad. There were 5 more people on the list, and the leaf farmer didn't say anything." Lao Jiu said: "If this kind of thing should be liberalized, it would be like a rising tide. Otherwise,
What do you call the overseas wave?" Chairman Xu took out his address book to search for the phone number, and said: "I have to tell Brandy that the money he paid will be accounted for, and then let him take the time to get the money back.
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After finding the number, Chairman Xu called Brandi. He first called Brandi's office, but Brandi was not there. Chairman Xu then remembered that it was the weekend and called Brandi's home.
Brandy received the call over there and asked professionally: "Hello, who are you?"
Chairman Xu said: "I am Lao Xu."
Brandi immediately turned into an easy-going tone and said: "It's Chairman Xu, hello! Hello! Is something wrong?" Chairman Xu said: "Berlin, Ye Ye Nong, have you remembered? The report on the investigation of Ye Ye Nong has been sent.
Yes, let me tell you, I have an explanation. In addition, the investigation fee has not been used up, there are 8 left, you can take it back when you have time."
Brandi asked: "Is the investigation report in English?"
Chairman Xu replied: "Of course, it's the money you spent."
Brandi said: "Okay, okay. Just wait a moment, I'll get it right away."
Chairman Xu was a little surprised by Brandi's reaction. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh, okay, okay."
After putting down the phone, Chairman Xu said: "He said he would come and get it. He seemed very interested."
Lao Jiu said: "You can take it if you want. They had some arguments in Berlin, so we don't want to talk about it."
Chairman Xu suddenly smiled strangely and said, "Brandy's voice was wrong just now. She was a little out of breath." Lao Jiu didn't understand for a while and asked, "What's wrong?"
Chairman Xu smiled and said: "Just living life."
Lao Jiu laughed and said, "Look, you ruined other people's good things."
Brandi reacted extremely quickly after receiving the call from Chairman Xu. He immediately drove to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He asked his girlfriend to wait in the car and entered the chamber of commerce. Within a few minutes, he came out with the investigation report and 8 US dollars.
Chairman Xu walked him to the door, waved and watched him drive away.
Less than two kilometers away from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Brandi stopped the car on the side of the road and read the documents in the car. There was not much content in the document, but he read it very carefully, reading it again and again... The document was confirmed and enlarged
With his weak sensitivity in Berlin, his mood was also changing. He felt that he was seeing something clearly and was being pushed by it. He felt that his sense of complacency was back, that
This kind of complacency only occurred to him when he just graduated from college. It was a long-lost feeling of finality.
Girlfriend looks at it.
Brandy didn't seem to hear it, but said to herself: "My intuition is right."
My girlfriend Brandy said: "If a person studies Marxism not for work, what does it mean?" My girlfriend said: "It means he is a fool. There is no need to read anyone's books."
Brandi said to herself again: "If my judgment is correct, this will be a valuable thing, very big.
His girlfriend Brandy put away the report and said: "You don't understand work. Now I will take you home and won't eat with you tonight."
The girlfriend said dissatisfiedly: "You are always like this, letting me go as soon as you are done."
Brandi said: "I have something to think about, it's very important, I need to be alone and quiet."
Brandy sent her girlfriend home first, and then went back to her own home. Brandy lived on the first floor of a high-rise apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Upper East Side was small in size and house prices were very high. It was an area where rich people lived together.
This apartment was the house that Luo Jiaming and his family rented when they first arrived in New York. It was also the place where Luo Jiaming and Brandy met. At that time, Brandi was not divorced yet and lived with his wife in another apartment. Since the divorce, he has been alone.
People live here.
Brandi was lying on the large sofa, just lying like this, he thought and thought...Unconsciously, the light in the room became darker and darker, until the night completely fell, watching the silver moonlight shining on the floor through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
. Perhaps the silence of the night was more stimulating for his thinking. He did not turn on the light and immersed himself in the night. He only smoked a cigarette occasionally and flicked the ashes into the ashtray on the coffee table through the weak moonlight. Countless
Reasons, words, possibilities... flashed around in his mind like fireflies, gradually forming connections, logic, and a theoretically predictable result.
Only then did he feel hungry, so he got up and turned on the light, but instead of going to the kitchen first, he went to the study room to turn on the computer, and then went to the kitchen to find food. There was a lot of food in the refrigerator, and he took
I ordered a burger and heated it in the microwave. While eating, I walked into the study. After finishing the burger, I wiped my hands and sat down in front of the computer. I typed a title:
Application reports for the large-scale TV series "One Hundred Years of the Communist Movement" came one after another, and he typed out some scattered and important words that were suggestive: drastic changes in Eastern Europe... the new trend of the world structure... and the consequences of the Eastern European authorities' implementation of reform policies.
Echoing political theories... Analysis of Eastern Europe... Market expectations of US$100 million... Effective use of inventory resources of Dilano Broadcasting Company... Leaf farmers... Specific candidates... Political background, family, life experience... Dilano
The authority and influence of broadcasting companies around the world...large scale, wide vision...
As he thought about it, he wrote down a lot of scattered tips. The scattered tips gradually turned into an outline, and he needed more time to turn the outline into a complete project application report. Brandy's main reasons for applying for project approval were:
He believed that he had found the right candidate; secondly, he used the political interests of the authorities of Eastern European countries and the psychological tendencies of the people to drive market interests, taking into account the market interests that could be obtained from the European and American people's sense of victory; thirdly, he effectively used Dilano Broadcasting Company's
Inventory resources, low cost. Brandi's idea has no political considerations, but uses the political situation to obtain economic benefits and increase the company's international influence. The so-called analysis of the communist movement for a hundred years is just a carrier and a means.
At this time, Brandi didn't know that there was another Lao Jiu in the city who had obtained the same information as him and was also paying attention to the same person, but they had different thoughts. He would never have thought that it was him tonight.
This thought kicked off the troubled life of Ye Zi Nong. At this moment, Ye Zi Nong, who was far away in Hongchuan, China, would not have imagined that his involvement in the Luo family's debt crisis was like knocking over the first domino. The debt crisis was not over yet.
The domino effect has already begun. (To be continued)